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The Jefferson Presidency
AP US History
Jefferson in his own words On slavery: • “There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the
manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other…..”
• "I wish the treatment of the native Americans was the only blot in our moral history, and that no other race had higher charges to bring against us. I am not apt to despair, yet I see not how we are to disengage ourselves from that deplorable entanglement. We have the wolf by the ear and feel the danger of either holding him or letting him loose….”
Monticello
University of Virginia
Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson vs. John Adams Democratic Federalist
Republican “Revolution of 1800”
Peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another
ELECTION OF 1800 ELECTORAL COLLEGE
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
ELEC
TOR
AL
VOTE
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Votes 73 73 65 64 1
Aaron Burr • Meant to be Jefferson Vice-
President • Challenges Jefferson for the
Presidency • Election decided by the House of
Reps. • Jefferson wins
Result • 12th Amendment • Electoral College has TWO votes • One vote for President • One vote for Vice President
Louisiana Purchase
Haiti
Haitian Revolution
US purchases Louisiana Purchase from France for $15 Million
Jefferson’s Dilemma • Jefferson believed in
strict construction of the Constitution (the President only had the powers listed in the Constitution)
• Jefferson has no Constitutional power to purchase land
• Jefferson turned to loose construction
Hamilton – Burr Duel
First Barbary War (1801-5)
Marine Hymn
From the halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli;
Impressment: kidnapping Americans to serve in the British navy